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I am not even going to link (trigger warning)

posted by [personal profile] thefairymelusine at 10:02pm on 27/10/2009 under ,

I have just read the most recent post on Shakesville. (shakespearessister.blogspot.com) Under the title Trigger Warning. And I really, really want to raise the profile of this, and combat all the victim blaming and reporting that I've read quoted in the comments, but I just can't. Not now. Because the details are so, so horrible. And I seriously consider advising you to think about that trigger warning, so much that I don't want to go into the details. In the briefest sense, a teenage girl was brutally sexually assaulted and her peers watched, in a space that should have been safe. And now the mainstream media reports are blaming her, and using loaded language. And this is why I don't like rape jokes. This is why I can't take rape/pursuit culture. And it's derivative, raunch culture. This is why the stupid, angry feminazi, liberati stuff I say actually fucking matters.This is why so many things matter. I'm shaking more visibly and have been crying with rage. And I don't know what I can do. I actually don't know what I can do other than continue what I do already. 

I am well supported, safe, pretty good at processing things and really, really can't take this 
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posted by [identity profile] azdaja-dafema.livejournal.com at 11:36pm on 27/10/2009
Oh Christ; I've just read it.
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posted by [identity profile] lilka.livejournal.com at 12:39pm on 29/10/2009
I waited to read this til today, because I wanted to be in a better mental place for it, and... I don't think I was ready. I don't think you get ready for something like that.

I'm so angry I'm still shaking.

I wanted to say, though - if you've ever once objected when someone told a rape joke? You fought back against the culture that makes things like this possible. And that is always, always worthwhile.
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posted by [identity profile] yond-cassius.livejournal.com at 06:12pm on 29/10/2009
Thanks. I understand the shaking. James came home after I posted this and we did just have about three hours of sitting hugging each other and shaking in horror (not an exaggeration). And that was from a very good mental place. The comments on the original article, on things like non triggery pledges like "I will always be the girl who calls the police" and further resolution to fight that culture, are very good.

Also, I'm on msn and facebook and gchat if you do want to discuss it further.
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posted by [identity profile] lilka.livejournal.com at 09:04am on 30/10/2009
I would love to chat to you on MSN (carmilla99[at]hotmail.com), but I'm not going to be around until Sunday at the earliest. *hugs*
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